G. S. Ghurye

Summary

Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (12 December 1893 – 28 December 1983) was a pioneering Indian academic who was a professor of sociology.[3] In 1924, he became the second person to head the Department of Sociology at the University of Bombay.[4] And, is widely regarded as the founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India.

G. S. Ghurye
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Born(1893-12-12)12 December 1893
Malvan, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died28 December 1983(1983-12-28) (aged 90)[1]
Bombay, Maharashtra, India[2]
NationalityIndian
CitizenshipIndian (formerly British subject
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
SpouseSajubai Ghurye.
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, Anthropology
InstitutionsUniversity of Bombay
Doctoral advisorW. H. R. Rivers & A. C. Haddon

Early life edit

G S Ghurye was born, in a Saraswat Brahmin community[5] on 12 December 1893, at Malvan, in present-day Maharashtra.[2] His early schooling was at the Aryan Education Society's High School, Girgaum, in Bombay, and then at Bahadur Khanji High School, Junagadh, in the princely state of Junagadh.[2] He joined Bahauddin college at Junagarh, in 1912, but moved on to Elphinstone College, Bombay, after a year, and received his B. A. (Sanskrit) and M. A. (Sanskrit) degrees from there.[6] He earned the Bhau Daji prize with his B. A., and the Chancellor's gold medal with his M. A. degree.[6] After completing his M. A., Ghurye received a scholarship for further studies in England, and earned his PhD from Cambridge University in 1922.[2] Ghurye was deeply influenced by W. H. R. Rivers, who was his PhD guide.[7] After Rivers' untimely death in 1922, he completed his thesis under A. C. Haddon.[7]

Personal life edit

Ghurye was married to Sajubai of Vengurla, a town near Malwan.[2] His son, Sudhish Ghurye is a Mathematician and Statistician, and daughter Kumud G. Ghurye was a barrister.[8]

Career edit

Ghurye was appointed as Head of the Department of Sociology in Bombay University in 1924, and retired in 1959.[9] The department was founded by Patrick Geddes in 1919.[10] However, when Ghurye took it over, it was on the verge of closure. The department came alive once again with Ghurye, and now, Ghurye is regarded as the real founder[11] and "shaped" the study of sociology there from then on.[12]

He also founded the Indian Sociological Society and its newsletter, Sociological Bulletin, and served as head for both.[13] He also headed the Bombay Anthropological Society for some years.[14]

After retirement, he served as Professor Emeritus for Bombay University and at least three festschrifts were produced in his honour, of which two were during his lifetime.[15] He guided a total of 80 research theses and authored 32 books and a number of other papers.[16] Later, at least two theses were written on him.[17]

Among his students were personalities like noted social reformer and intellectual Dr. Uttamrao K. Jadhav,[18] A. J. Agarkar, Y. M. Rege, L. N. Chapekar, M. G. Kulkarni, M. S. A. Rao, Iravati Karve, C. Rajagopalan, Y. B. Damle, M.N. Srinivas, A. R. Desai, D. Narain, I. P. Desai, M. S. Gore, Suma Chitnis and Victor D'Souza.[19] He also had the opportunity to see the "Dr. G. S. Ghurye Award" being instituted in his honour.[20] His book Caste and race in India is regarded as a classic in the field.[21]

Publications edit

  • G.S. Ghurye (2008) [1932]. Caste and race in India. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7154-205-5.[21]
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1943). The aborigines -"so-called" – and their future. Pub. by D.R. Gadgil for the economics.
  • G. S. Ghurye (1951). Indian costume, bhāratīya veṣabhūsā. the Popular book depot.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1952). Race relations in Negro Africa. Asia Pub. House.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1995) [1953]. Indian Sadhus. Puopular Prakashan, Bombay.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1956). Sexual Behaviour of the American Female. Current Book House.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1957). Caste and class in India. Popular Book Depot.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1958). Bhāratanāṭya and its costume. Popular Book Depot.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1960). After a century and a quarter: Lonikand then and now. Popular Book Depot.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1962). Cities and civilization. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1962). Gods and men, by G. S. Ghurye.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1962). Family and kin in Indo-European culture. Popular Book Depot.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1963). The Mahadev Kolis. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1963). Anatomy of a rururban community. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1963). Anthropo-sociological papers. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1965). Religious consciousness. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1968). Social tensions in India. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1973). I and other explorations. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1974). Whither India?. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye; S. Devadas Pillai (1976). Aspects of changing India: studies in honour of Prof. G. S. Ghurye. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1977). Indian acculturation: Agastya and Skanda. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1978). India recreates democracy. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 9780842616072.
  • G. S. Ghurye (December 1979). Legacy of the Ramayana. South Asia Books. ISBN 978-0-8364-5760-5.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1979). Vedic India. Popular Prakashan.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1 January 1980) [1963]. The scheduled tribes of India. Transaction Publishers. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-87855-692-2.
  • Govind Sadashiv Ghurye (1980). The burning caldron of north-east India. Popular Prakashan.
  • G.S. Ghurye (1 January 2005). Rajput Architecture. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7154-446-2.

References edit

Notes

  1. Pillai, S. Devadas. Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary, "Bhau Daji Lad was a scholar and reform-activist, a nationalist of Bombay [Mumbai] in the second half of the 19th cent."[2]
  2. Dhirendra Narain, The legacy of G.S. Ghurye: a centennial festschrift, "Mrs. Sajubai Ghurye is one of the early authors on cookery, a little too flourishing and profitable a branch of writing these days. Her book in Marathi, my wife tells me, is very good—very accurate in measurement and very systematic in its directions."[22]
  3. Pillai, S. Devadas. Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary, "The Bombay Univ instituted an annual Ghurye Award (qv), during his lifetime, to encourage authors in sociology and anthropology."[23]

Citations

  1. ^ Momin 1996, p. 28.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Pillai 1997, p. 101.
  3. ^ Momin 1996, p. 4; Pillai 1997, p. 13.
  4. ^ University of Mumbai.
  5. ^ "Obituary GS Ghurye". Economic and Political Weekly. 19 (1): 7–8. 5 June 2015.
  6. ^ a b Pillai 1997, p. 101; Tikekar & Ṭikekara 2006, p. 106.
  7. ^ a b Momin 1996, pp. 2–3, Chapter author:M. N. Srinivas; Momin 1996, p. 20 Chapter author:Dhirendra Narain
  8. ^ Pillai 1997, p. 102; Momin 1996, pp. 15, 27, Chapter author:Dhirendra Narain; Momin 1996, pp. 37 Chapter author:Sadanand Bhatkal
  9. ^ Pillai 1997, p. 102; Pillai 1976, pp. 27–28; University of Mumbai & _.
  10. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 119–123; University of Mumbai & _.
  11. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 119–123.
  12. ^ Srivastava, Vinay Kumar; Chaudury, Sukant K. (2009). "Anthropological Studies of Indian Tribes". In Atal, Yogesh (ed.). Sociology and Social Anthropology in India. Pearson Education India. p. 60. ISBN 9788131720349.
  13. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 102, 123–124; University of Mumbai & _.
  14. ^ Pillai 1997, p. 102.
  15. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 14, 102–103; University of Mumbai & _.
  16. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 103, 126-; Pillai 1976, pp. 29–40 (a discussion of Ghurye's works, see list on p 40); University of Mumbai
  17. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 103, 392; University of Mumbai & _.
  18. ^ Jadhav, Uttamrao (1972). Is Capital Punishment Necessary?. Mumbai: Anand Publications.
  19. ^ Pillai 1997, pp. 111, 270; University of Mumbai & _.
  20. ^ Pillai 1997, p. 124.
  21. ^ a b Pillai 1976, p. 29.
  22. ^ Momin 1996, p. 30.
  23. ^ Pillai 1997, p. 103.

Bibliography

  • Srinivas, M. N.; Bhadra, R. K.; Bhatkal, Sadanand; Bose, Pradip Kumar; et al. (1996). Momin, A. R. (ed.). The legacy of G.S. Ghurye: a centennial festschrift. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7154-831-6. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  • Pillai, S. Devadas (1997). Indian sociology through Ghurye, a dictionary. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7154-807-1. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  • Pillai, S.D. (1976). Studies in Honour of Prof. G.S. Ghurye. Popular Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-7154-157-7. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  • Tikekar, Aroon; Ṭikekara, Aruṇa (2006) [1984]. The cloister's pale: a biography of the University of Mumbai. By Popular Prakashan for The University of Mumbai. ISBN 978-81-7991-293-5. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
  • University of Mumbai. "Department of Sociology:About the department". Archived from the original on 23 September 2011.

Further reading edit

  • Jayaram, N. (May–August 2013). "The 'Bombay School' and Urban Sociology in India". Sociological Bulletin. 62 (2): 311–323. doi:10.1177/0038022920130208. JSTOR 23621067. S2CID 151447109.
  • Venugopal, C. N. (2013). "G. S. Ghurye on Culture and Nation-Building". In Modi, Ishwar (ed.). Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India. SAGE Publishing. ISBN 978-8-13211-844-2.

External links edit

  • Professor G.S. Ghurye (1893–1983) Archived 8 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  • Malvancity: Dr. G S Ghurye Archived 17 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine